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From: fjhenigman@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Frank J. Henigman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: 3.2 C compiler bug
Message-ID: <1990May2.164735.27436@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 2 May 90 16:47:35 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Lines: 21

The following program prints zero but it should print 1.
If you modify the program so that foo() does not return a struct it works
as expected.


struct crud { long x; } w;

struct crud foo( float f, long k )
	{
	printf( "%ld\n", k );
	return w;
	}

main()
	{
	foo( 0.0, 1L );
	}
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fjhenigman@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca                       Computer Graphics Lab
fjhenigman@watcgl.waterloo.edu   Frank J. Henigman   University of Waterloo
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